As Orthodox Christians as well as the earlier Christians during the patristic tradition , liturgy, rituals and icons are central to our identity: As I said, I lost interest in philology again, thank Jupiter. Karen Armstrong has the same intuitions —but she focuses on the theology of the 6 th C. I was cured of my initial career plan to become a philologist thank Jupiter but the Knossos mystery gave me the first intuition of the problem of silent evidence —the fundamental incompleteness of our representation of the past, coupled with the drawing of inferences from a partial data set. By not natural I mean not Black-Swan robust, skills we call intelligence because of a certain construction, but that are not needed ecologically.